VOL 27 N*. 6 FFA officers at Greenwood High School, Millerstown, Perry County, proudly display banner for the state's newest Future Farmers of America chapter. Officers include, from the president; Wade Server. Inside Hits Week’s,., National 4-H Congress in Chicago again this year has drawn to a dose as 15 members from Pennsylvania, Maryland; Delaware and New Jersey earn national awards. Find out more onpages,..BlB,and 824. Two Lackawanna County daiiymefLShoot for a baker’s dozen when it comes to high herd averages.' Read their story 0n...820. Elco Young Farmers honor top crop, dairy-producers. See the winners 0n...A27. Tax reform bilk face farmer opposition HARRISBURG - The Penn sylvania House Finance Com mittee wrapped up its hearings on the Stauffer tax reform bills this week, according to a spokesperson for Rep. Benjamin Wilson (R -144th), committee chairman. The Committee will be considering this legislation at a meeting scheduled for Dec. 9 at 8:30 p.m. in Room 140 of the Capitol Building. Senate Bills 1085 and 1086, which would replace the school property tax with a local personal mcome tax and a business' use or oc cupancy tax, moved to the House Committee m October after the Senate passed the legislation with a vote of 30-16. The prime sponsor of the legislation is Senate Majority Whip John Stauffer (R -19th) Couhtyßepublican. since me mus reached the House Committee, little progress was made in getting them passed. For, during the second week of November, the Committee voted 22-2 to hold public hearings on the issue. Committee Chairman Wilson, who is described by the Penn sylvania Chamber of Commerce as a proponent of local tax shifting, has his own set of tax reform bills secretary; Dayid Bratton, treasurer; Raymond McGowen, reporter; Tom Gothei, sentinel: James Lower, chaplain; and Mike Sarver, vice president.- in the till House Bills 1184-1188. It has been predicted that the Stauffer bill will not remain intact in the House, and will probably be amended by Wilson and others. Two of the three major farm organizations have gone on record as opposing SB 1085-1086. The Pennsylvania State Grange sub mitted testimony on November 18 against the Stauffer package and the business use or occupancy tax. “Tax reform would provide relief to farmers and rural property owners, but the Stauffer bills don’t go far enough,” said a Grange spokesperson. The State Grange policy calls for a gr idiwl shift from real estate taxes tor education to net mcome tax on personal mcome or incorporated businesses. Saying the tax reform proposal would create a double burden for the farmer, the State' Grange said it feels farmers would have to pay the taxes that were reduced for landlords. And, 'taxes lost on vacant lands or from idle farms held by absentee landowners would also become additional burdens to the paying public. “'Dus package is almost a (Turn to Page A3B) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 5,1981 PMMB studies milk price reversal;may appeal BY IMNNATOMMEXLEO , HARRISBURG - The Penn sylvania Milk Marketing Board mil possibly appeal a recent Commonwealth Court ruling which reversed and remanded the PMMB’s ordered price increase in three eastern Pennsylvania counties, Earl B. Fink, Jr, PMMB executive secretary said Thur sday. Fink explained the board is still studying the ruling, which eliminated the proposed 12 cent per gallon retail price hike in Bucks, Chester and Montgomery Counties (Area 1 Zone 2). The PMMB can grant' an in crease in the minimum retail price, providing dealers present sufficient evidence to indicate their production costs have risen. The Area 1 Zone 2 hearings in cluded the testimony of four dealers. The unanimous decision, handed down last week by Judge David Craig of Pittsburgh, capped a 15- Columns Editorials, All); Now is the time, All); Brockett's Ag Advice, Al 9; That’s a good question, AJO; Farming’s Futures, A 36; Ladies, have you heard?, B 4; Joyce Bupp’s Column, BIO; Ida’s Notebook, 87. Dairy Lancaster DHIA, D 4; Bradtord DHIA, Dl’i; Milk Market News, A3O; No. 1 Bed & White Herd in PA,A22; Delaware dairymen grow no-till corn, Alb. Home and Youth Homestead Notes, B 2; Home on the Range, BO; FWS news, BS); 4-H news, B 13; Kids’s Korner, B 12; FFA news, BIO; Chester 4-H dairy banquet, B 20; Farmland Preservation, DO; Farm Safety, BJO. Pa. FFA welcomes Greenwood Greenhands BY DICK ANGLESTEIN MILLERSTOWN - Penn sylvania welcomed its newest Future Farmers ot America chapter Thursday night - the 209th throughout the Commonwealth It’s a chapter with 30 members - not bad tor a high school that has a graduating class of about 60. All the members are Greenhands, first-year vo-ag students, naturally. It’s a chapter that’s gradually adding equipment and courses of ag-related study and FFA ac tivities. It’s a chapter with a busy civic mmded farmer serving as in structor and chapter adviser during its first yur. It’s a chapter that bad been absent from the vocational *• majth- battle spearheaded by consumers and lily Penn, which operates a chain of convenience markets in suburban Philadelphia. Lily Penn and the consumer group opposed the PMMB’s price increase and appealed to the Commenweaith Court. The court’s ruling will probably produce a few changes in the PMMB’s 44-year-old price determining system, according to Henry Geisinger, vice president of the Pennsylvania Association of Milk Dealers. “I don’t think it’s the end of milk control,” said Geisinger, “but there is going to be some changes.” Geisinger, whose group is presently studying the court’s ruling, said one of the changes may be in the area of interstate movement of milk. “The board can’t go across the , + s*y ' #WW§ * *y v / s ,t agricultural scene for more than a decade and a half and was finally reborn Thursday night after some three years of continuing interest and active encouragement by a group of Perry County fanners and other persons It’s the Greenwood FFA Chapter of Greenwood High School in the rural Perry County borough of Millerstown. And farmer-advisor Glenn Cauffman expressed the chapter's rebirth best Thursday night during initiation ceremonies for the Greenhand membership: "We lack many things in our new chapter, "he said. “But the students overcome tins lack of things with a wealth of (TumtoPagaASO state line end ask to see figures," Geisinger explained. According to a spokeswoman from Judge Craig’s office, the interstate and inter-zone movement of milk was a significant factor in the court’s decision. The board report indicated that 29.2 percent of the milk sold in zone 2 was processed in zone 1 and 11.6 percent of the milk sold in zone 2 was processed out of states Judge Craig wrote, “the operations of dealers or handlers located outside the marketing zone so intergrally affect the sale and distribution of milk within the zone, we believe that the language of the section should not be so strictly construed as to limit board consideration of dealers only to those physically situated within the subject area.” (Turn to Page A 35) * visitors; - ?smJ*: :; *&s :